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Thanks vgersh99, ${HOME} worked!

The file f1 contains the text "body" (shell prompt is "$"):
$ cat ~/path/f1
body

How to print contents of f1 when the f1 path is in a variable?
Here is my failed attempt:
$ f1="~/path/f1"
$...

I want a list of all PDF files, excluding file names ending in "_nobackup.pdf" or "_nobackup.PDF", and don't even look in folders ending in "_nobackup".

These three finds worked as expected:
$ find . -iname "*.PDF"
$ find . -iname "*.PDF" \( ! -name "*_nobackup.*" \)
$ find . -path "*_nobackup*" -prune -iname "*.PDF"

They all returned the...

That fixed it! :b:
Thank you RudiC and everyone else that helped along the way.
I could not have done it without you.

The following example works as intended.

$ cat tests.sh:
#!/bin/bash...

I didn't know about xtrace. Nice. Thanks for the tip.
Running ../tut0/load.sh directly works fine.
But test.sh is not calling ../tut0/load.sh.

$ cat tests.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo "in tests.sh...

Good idea. The pwd and ls outputs are as expected. But load.sh never gets called.
Why is load.sh not called?

$ cat tests.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo "in tests.sh --------"
echo "pwd:"
pwd
echo...

The example in post #9 works, it has all the files in one directory.
A C++ function main(), returns an error code (1 means EXIT_FAILURE).
The error code is passed from the main() function, to...

Thank you Scrutinizer, that worked. Outputs are as expected!

test.sh:

#!/bin/bash
if ./load.sh
then
echo "0"
else
echo "1"
fi


load.sh:
#!/bin/bash
main
rc=$?
echo $rc...

Thanks Don Cragun.

I tried the scripts you suggested in my load.sh file, but get the same result.

load.sh:
#!/bin/bash
main
rc=$?
exit $rc


From command line:
$ ./tests.sh
0

Bash...

Sorry I left out the bash header. I am using Bash.

I have several load.sh scripts, and want to call them all from one test.sh script.
Each load.sh script calls a C++ function that returns an...

How to return a exit code from a function and use it in conditional?
I tried the following but it does not seem to work.

tests.sh:
if test ./load.sh ; then
echo "0"
else
echo "1"
fi...

Alister,
Yes, my bank uses HTTPS. But it is too easy to purchase a digital certificate.

pludi,
I like the VM for online banking idea. I will investigate that.

I currently keep a hosts file to make my online banking more secure. But that won’t help in the event of a DNS-cache-poisoning zero-day attack. Is the following solution practical?

Dedicate one...

Thanks methyl, that worked:b:var=10
echo $var
. ./job
echo "var=$var"

rekha_sri,

I ran the code you suggested, but the script did not find the file "job" filewolf-PC:~/computer_languages/UNIX/sp> ./exe_str
10
.: 4: job: not found
The "job" file and the "exe_str"...

Please help with this simple example. I can not figure out how to do it. A file named “job” contains only this one line:var=5I need a script to read the job file and execute it as a command. This...

abubacker,
I didn't know where else to put an rsync tutorial. Is there a place that would be more easily found by rsync newbies?

Thank you.

Hi. Learning rsync from the man pages can be daunting. I wrote this tutorial to make learning rsync easier:

rsync tutorial (rsync2u) (http://sites.google.com/site/rsync2u/home/rsync-tutorial)
...

Thanks for all your suggestions. The echo string needed quotes. The following examples worked.
#!/bin/sh

#concatinating with leading dash
#All output "-n test" (echo string needs quotes)
...

vidyadhar85,
I am using the Debian Almquist shell (came with Ubuntu 9.04).

gaurav1086,
I retried with single quotes, but got the same results.
#not working with dashes
var2='-n $var1'
echo...

Is there a way to concatenate two strings, where the first string is "-n" and there is a space between the "-n" and the second string? Below are some examples of what I tried.
#!/bin/sh
var1=test...

Thank you for all your suggestions. I have incorporated some of your suggestions into the script, and updated the script (in the first post...

steadyonabix,

Thanks for the suggestion. Here is the code change:
abort()
{
echo "$1"
echo "Backup aborted"
exit
}

#check destination_path
if [ ! -d "$destination_path" ]
then...

Thank you all for helping me figure out how to manage spaces in paths. The following script is the result. The script uses rsync to backup files to a USB device. Special thanks to Scrutinizer:b:....